Proclamation to the aborigines, ca. 1828-30, 1984 / Thomas Davey

DG V/2
DG V/3

fonds

Sydney : John Morris Heritage Explorers, 1984

Graphic Materials, Prints

837057

1 print - hand coloured photolithograph - 42 x 24.4 cm, image size, on paper 48 x 29.5 cm, with folder and notes

From a lithograph owned by Mr. John Morris

Approval for reproduction required

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.

Transferred from DG V* file, November 2008

Notes on A message to the Tasmanian Aborigines in 1829, popularly called "Governor Davey's Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816" by John Morris Heritage Explorers, 1984 are
available in Mitchell Library Reading Room at PXn 704.
The notes, excluding the chronology, are reproduced in Australiana August 1988, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 84-87.

For further notes and references about the proclamation see PXn 19.

The lettering of the title inscription is similar to that in other lithographs held. The spacing and lettering of the inscription beneath the image varies slightly from that of lithographs in the collection.

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